The Summer Summit establishes an opportunity for networking and building partnerships between nonprofit and higher education sectors in West Michigan. Through presentations and networking sessions, the Summit will connect educational resources from area colleges/universities to local nonprofit organizations, so they can engage effectively with student volunteers. The Summit is cohosted by the GVSU Community Service Learning Center and the Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

Faculty will benefit from the information presented about engaging students in effective volunteer experiences, learning about the local needs of nonprofits in our community, and from the direct networking opportunity. Additionally, the summit participants will be provided with a time to brainstorm opportunities to engage students (service learning projects, one-time volunteer events, internships, etc.) toward the end of the conference and it would be especially valuable for faculty from various disciplines to be present to engage in dialogue.

The agenda for the conference can be found at www.summersummit.eventbrite.com, and faculty who wish to attend should contact Valerie Jones at jonesval@gvsu.edu for free registration and the professional development award no later than July 19.

The International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at its 2014 International Conference, to be held in Anchorage, in partnership with the University of Alaska Anchorage, May 31 - June 2, 2014.

Proposals are solicited on all topics related to higher education including those involving new technologies and globalization related issues. Both scholarly and practice reports are invited. Participants will be from the gamut of academic disciplines across the arts, sciences, and professions, as well as from other administrative and staff functions delivering and supporting new technologies and approaches to learning. As with every HETL conference, we support participation from around the world. Please submit your proposal for a presentation before the July 26, 2013 deadline or simply join us as a conference attendee by registering. No proposal is required if you are attending but not presenting.

New pedagogies and technologies (such as blended and flipped courses, online learning, social media, MOOCs, and mobile learning) are either already impacting or likely to increasingly impact teaching and learning in your disciplines. An opportunity to explore such strategies and their impacts is The Teaching Professor Technology Conference from October 4-6, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Details are available at www.teachingprofesor.com/conferences. If you're interested in being part of a CLAS delegation to the conference, please contact Fred Antczak before August 7, and we'll see if we can touch all their bases, and maybe create sharable resources.

For Unit Heads

5. Third and final call: First Annual Request for Out-of-State Experiential Learning Sites- Reports due this week (attachment)

Thank you for your assistance in gathering information on out of state experiential learning experiences for your unit. The university must determine how many Grand Valley students are engaging in learning experiences in each of the United States on an annual basis.

The list of states and the two questions to answer are attached in an Excel spreadsheet:

Please place the numbers of students by state who, in the last year, were engaged in experiential learning (internship, clinical, research, externship etc.) Please fill in numbers only for those states that hosted Grand Valley students.

N.B. Taking an out-of-state online course does not fall into the category of experiential learning.

If any of the placements were associated with a federal program, please list the number of these placements in the second column next to the appropriate state.

Save the spreadsheet with the unit name and return.

Please return your completed electronic file even if there is no data to report to Associate Dean Mary Schutten by July 12, 2013.Thank you for your assistance with this important—and now annual--task.